DMCA Infringements: Much Ado About Copying?

The exponential rise in content takedown orders on social media platforms due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998 ( DMCA) infringements in the recent past makes one wonder what the DMCA is and how it works. In this explainer, we provide an insight into how the DMCA came to be, how it affects us as Indian users of the internet and what we can do to peacefully coexist with DMCA.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/dmca-infringements-much-ado-about-copying/